Terracotta Army

A journey is defined as a path an individual makes either from one place to another. It can vary from a hiking trip, to the Appalachian Mountains to a child growing up from an abusive home and going to college. Journeys both embark a change typically physically and mentally to an individual. The former Vietnam veteran Jimmy Cross in The Things They Carried and the Doctor in The Use of Force both portrayed a weak sense of responsibility in the short term, but their intentions and growth in the…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a diagnosis made by doctors on a regular basis for patients who have suffered major traumas such as a car accident. Similarly, Charley experiences traumatic events throughout war. Charley is a 15-year-old boy who lives in Winona, Minnesota with his mother and brother. He sees an opportunity to fight in a war and takes it immediately, hoping to prove himself a man. As a result of the war, Charley has changed physically, mentally, and emotionally. First,…

Soldiers returning home For veterans, the war does not end on the battlefield. Mental illnesses such as PTSD and depression follow men and women into their homes, affecting their daily lives. In the article “Soldiers returning home are faced with a heartbreaking problem most people don’t understand” from Business Insider, Sebastian Junger states his symptoms of short term PTSD. When Junger returned home, he experienced lack of interest in things he once enjoyed. The switch from war to home was…

It is utterly obvious that the topic of war is a repetitive one. Although, it is almost always agreed that the many hardships of war will cause the people to get involved, whether it’s the soldier themselves or the family and friends of the soldiers. This can be devastating because war is hard on more people than just the soldiers. Most of these effects can be looked at through pictures, writing, poetry, and all other forms of expression. Although Donald Bruce Dawe and Wilfred Owen, the writers…

“Conflicts” among characters in Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” helps the reader to understand the main character’s feelings and physical conditions - depression. The story starts with two different pictures showing Krebs before and after joining the army. The author stages the story from Krebs’s inner conflict to the relationship with his family. Indeed, the author leaves a lot of doubts that make the reader believe Krebs had pain of heart broken while at war. The author does not directly describe…

War stories often graphically describe violent events to immerse the reader in the action of the actual fight. Despite this, there is always an underlying reason as to why the author uses that scene in particular. Those brutal incidents that make it to the pages of the book are significant to the message that the writer wishes to present to the reader. This violence is not always limited to battles. One particularly vicious scene in The Things They Carried is when Curt Lemon is killed and in…

Essay Question #1: Analyze Operation Valhalla, Iraq (2006). Using this situation as an example, what is the best leadership course of action to mitigate enemy manipulation of circumstances and kinetic operations? There were many courses of action to be executed during Operation Valhalla, (Iraq) 2006, but as a ground commander you are constricted to a limited amount of resources prior to executing the mission. From my understanding, United States Special Forces killed the enemy inside their…

People who are exposed to combat in war will change their entire lives. In the novel, Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, the story is set during the Vietnam War. The story includes a character named Richie, who has been drafted to war at a very young age. The novel shows how soldiers who go to war change because they are exposed to new experiences. Fallen Angels shows how people who go to war become a different person through religion. It also shows people changing in war by showing soldiers…

Therefore, I concluded that this story belongs to the mystery genre because the plot of the story involves an event that cannot really be explained to human comprehension- an army who is supposed to fight an enemy is involved in a dream and fight with an unexplained being. This is how a mystery genre often goes. Furthermore, the clues in the story suggest who did the act, which was made known at the end of the story. The red…

power to punch through the armor of knights. Without the protection afforded by armor, knights had no reason to continue using it. Afterall, it was heavy, cumbersome, and expensive. It became more economical and effective for kings to create standing armies supplemented…